From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Rob McDonald <robm@asdl.gatech.edu>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:40:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051231164012.GA24402@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009701c60891$50893fd0$6900a8c0@sps>
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:53AM -0500, Rob McDonald wrote:
>MSYS is a minimal system that includes ports of all build-chain tools
>you need to get Makefiles to work. I would envision using it along
>with native ports of Perl, Tk/Tcl, etc.
MSYS is basically an unmaintained fork of Cygwin. It uses an old
version of the Cygwin DLL with some hacks to handle path names
differently. It isn't intended as a platform for porting packages to
MSYS. It is intended to be used as an environment for porting packages
to MinGW.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-31 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-24 2:34 Possibility of a MinGW version? Rob McDonald
2005-12-24 10:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-12-24 10:18 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2005-12-24 10:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-12-24 12:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-24 16:40 ` David Brown
2005-12-24 13:51 ` Rob McDonald
2005-12-24 14:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-25 17:16 ` Rob McDonald
2005-12-31 16:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-12-31 21:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-01 5:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-12-31 16:40 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2005-12-24 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-24 23:44 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-12-25 1:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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